I'm a lurker here....also a writer of various things, comics
and articles mostly...
but being an old fan of Encyclopedia Brown (led by this
fanship to seek out joe and frank, nancy, and even sherlock)
I might try my hand at this after some research...if other
more qualified types do not choose to.
tommy
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Burton Smith
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 1:03 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Gateway Drugs..uh,
Books
Karin wrote:
> Bobbseys to Bruens by way of Christie and Keene:
Memoirs of a Woman
> Noir-Lover
>
> I'll bet a lot of us could imagine writing that
article/dissertation/
> book.
And I wrote:
> "If someone wants to write it, I'm willing to
publish it on my site.
> I've always considered the Bobbseys, the Boys,
Nancy Drew and the
> Three
> Investigators (and now Chet Gecko) as gateway
drugs."
And then Mark wrote:
> Although I did read a few Hardy Boys books (but most
prized their
> investigation manual), it was Encyclopedia Brown
and Emil and the
> Detectives that started me. Then my father gave me
the Complete
> Sherlock Holmes in two volumes. Read some
Christies, but finally found
> my home when I read The Long Goodbye.
The offer still stands. If anyone around here
wants to do an overview
of crime and mystery books for kids and how they
lead them here, I'd
love to run it. Or if someone wants to champion
one of their early
childhood favourites that I've missed (or expand
upon those I've
listed), that would be good too. Just contact me
privately.
I'm sure for most of us who have read all our
lives, the first crime
or detective novel we read wasn't I, THE JURY or
THE BIG SLEEP or
some stone cold hard-boiled classic... and to
tell the truth, I'd be
dubious about any claims that they were.
Kevin Burton Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site
Celebrating 10 Years of P.I. Thrills
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